DTR Sports Sports Management’s Director Daniel Roberts and Tim Thorton from Winners along with the face of Winners Nutrition Cadel Evens rode out of Hurstbridge station early Sunday morning with a contingent of over 300 cyclists.
DTR Sports Management’s Matt Docking gains experience through some strong results. Please find below a short review put together by DTR Sports Management’s Golf Manager.
Wollongong Golf Club and The Vintage Golf Club were the venues for these 2 prestigious events on the Australian Golfing calendar. Matt applied himself well, while unable to capatilize on some good ball striking with a non-responsive putter, he took valuable lessons away from from both tournaments.
Matt is an extremely hard worker and it’s only a matter of time before a big finish in a major event transpires.
DTR Sports Management’s Director Daniel Roberts and I are extremely proud of the way our golfing portpholio is shaping, and with experience gained by Matt at these and future events we are excited about his and Leightons future.
Daniel Squires
Golf Brand Manager
DTR Sports Management’s Sam Hume races to his best after injury period.
Please find Sam’s reports below:
Logging the miles – Lorne to Canberra
Raced as the team swimmer in the Anaconda Adventure Race in Lorne Dec 6 over 1.9km, getting out of the water first and holding on for the 400m run to T1. Blue Seventy Helix wetsuit was superb as usual. Great event, well organised, and we managed to come up with the win even after our 2h26m marathoner had some navigational issues!
This past weekend, wife Naant and our 15 week old daughter hit the road for a little trip to Canberra Half IM. We stayed in Albury Friday and Sunday nights, preferring to break the trip and with the luxury of Friday afternoon and Monday morning off work.
I had a good swim, leading out the age group with plenty of zig zagging to get through the earlier waves. The ride was over 3 hilly laps and I was back on Mitch Anderson’s Giant Advanced SL prototype with a Bouwmeester Evo881front wheel and disc (see photo Nov 23) – new bikes arrive in January and I believe many of them have been pre-sold already! I rode by myself for the entire way and felt like I held a good intensity and didn’t run out of gas. The run was flat and hot, and I was about 2 minutes quicker than a month ago in Shepparton. In the end I was 8th overall and 1st age grouper. Little Jas was a real trooper and it was great to have some success on our first family road trip.
Now back to my roots with the next few races being Anglesea Swim Dec 28, Pier to Pub Jan 9 and Geelong 70.3 Feb 7.
Merry Christmas to all and stay safe
DTR Sports Management’s Matty White races shoot course Triathlon to finish a great season.
Please find Matt White’s race report.
Hey everyone,
I am sitting here writing this race report with a beer in one hand and a big grin, knowing that I have the rest of the year off training and racing and boy am I going to enjoy a well deserved break.
Initially I was not going to race this weekend as I was pretty wrecked after Busso, not just the race but trying to recover from the after party was a big task! But I started to feel good on Wednesday after a couple of massages and decided to make the trip up to Mildura to compete in the 20th anniversary of this great race. John Flemming andthe team put on such a well organised fun race with great prize money so it wasn’t a hard decision to drive up plus my wife was racing so I would be going up anyway.
Race start was 8.45 andconditions were perfect withno wind andthankfully a downstream swim in the Murray, 750m later I managed to emerge in 3rd position only 5 seconds behindthe fast junior swimmers. I knew that my strength lies on the bike and to be in touch this early was good for my confidence. The ride leg contained some nice little bites in it which helped me get away and extend my lead to about a minute heading into T2 with Ryan Johnson in 2nd andShane Johnson 3rd a further minute back. Hitting the run was not fun as the legs didn’t want to play the game which was understandable after the last 6 months, but I managed to extend my lead on the run and things started coming together in the last 2.5km. I ended up winning the race by about 2 minutes to Ryan Johnson and a fast finishing Chris Rawlings. Its great to know that I can bust out a fast sprint distance race only a week after Ironman and still have some good speed.
As for now though it is rest time which will involve a lot of Golf, Christmas Drinks and sleep ins, before I start training again in the New Year and my build up for Geelong 70.3 in February.
I would like to thank everyone for the support I have received over the last 6 months with all the inspirational messages and emails it really helps a lot and does not go unnoticed.
Thanks
Matty
Ryders Eyewear Director Neville Mayson with Matty White and Luke Whitmore at Ironman Western Australia 2009
Ryders Eyewear features in the latest Triathlon and Multisport Magazine along with industry running magazine Run 4 Your Life.
Ryders Eyewear is strongly supported by:
Paul Attard (Pro Triathlete)
Luke Whitmore (Pro Triathlete)
Matty White (Pro Triathlete)
James Attard (Pro Duathlete)
Matt Docking (Pro Golfer)
Enjoy the reviews at a local newsagent near you.
DTR Sports Management’s Luke Whitmore in his first Pro start puts a strong race together to finish in the top ten.
Enjoy Luke’s personal race report:
Busselton Ironman 2009
On Tuesday the 1st of December I landed in Perthfor Ironman Western Australia 2009. We loaded our rental cars and headed for a little coastal town on the bay of Geographe, affectionately known as ‘Busso’ amongst the triathlon fraternity. On arrival I was straight out on the bike course for my last hard session before Saturday’s race. The first thing I noticed a lot of work had been done on the roads. The bike course was now nearly 180km of hotmix.
Our house consisting of George (Ironman virgin a.k.a Mr Degani) Ex Pro Cyclist Chris (Fronting up for an Ironman re-birth after 10 years out of the sport) and Ruth (Single Mum and Ironman addict ready for Ironman no.6). Also accompanying us was my Beautiful pregnant wife Tarryn and Corin, Ruths partner. We formed a good routine in the days leading up to the race attempting to stay on Melbourne time as to not interrupt our sleep pattern.
Race morning arrived and I was suitably nervous for my first Ironman as a pro. The swim start was calm and felt easy perhaps a little too easy as I missed the first pack. Our group settled into a good pace and I sat nicely on the feet of Matt Stephens and shoulder of Jason Shortis. 2.8km into the swim we discovered we had gone off course and had to alter path costing at least one minute and perhaps two. We exited the water in a disappointing time just under 54 minutes.
Onto the bike course and weather man was correct, it was going to be hot and windy. This didn’t bother me as I had already trained and raced in these conditions this season. I was settling into a nice pace with Matt Stephens and Petr Vabrousek. At about the 20k mark Jason Shortis stormed past, Matt and Petr jumped his wheel. I missed it trying to stay 7metres back my HR was rapidly rising. I decided it was wiser to settle into my own pace. It was now to be 160km solo. Something I had never experienced before. In first lap I lost about 1:30 to the group ahead of me and I felt quite good. However heading out of town for the second 60km lap it started to hurt. The winds were picking up, and there seemed to be no relief. Either cross wind or head wind. No tail wind. During the second half of the second lap my pace was dropping. I was still holding my goal HR of 160bpm and Cadence of 100 but unfortunately I was obviously getting tired and perhaps a little dehydrated (despite drinking quite a bit) as the same effort was resulting in less speed. My second 60km was two-three minutes slower than my first. I was not having fun and had 60km left to grind out. This lap was terrible for me and I certainly wished I was part of the several ‘peletons’ in front and behind me out on the course. This lap was 6 minutes slower than my first giving me a bike time of 4:54 10 minutes slower than I had hoped.
It was now out onto the run and I felt bloated and heavy struggling to get down my usual intake of gel on the bike. I felt on top of hydration and sodium/electrolyte intake but couldn’t stomach gel. I adjusted my nutrition plan to coke and sports drink out on the run course simply getting in as much as possible at each aid station. I was not feeling great on the run and the solo bike ride was taking it’s toll. I was at least 15 minutes down on the next pro and in 15th position. Not what I had hoped for. I stuck to my guns though and plugged away completing the first 14km lap in 57:22 with a toilet stop. I knew my run was going to be slow. The next 28km was a battle and I was slowly overtaking a few of the guys in front of me as they began to blow. By the start of the last lap I was in 11th position. One more to catch to achieve my goal for this race of making the top 10.
The last lap was purely mental. I was hurting like I have never hurt before. It took every bit of concentration not to walk but I knew I was gaining on 10th. At the final turn around I had him. I was now confident of a 10th place finish and secretly satisfied despite the day not going anywhere near to plan. With 1.5km to go I saw Petr and Matt the boys I had started the day with only a few hundred metres up the road. I found some energy from I don’t know where. I put the hammer down caught and past Petr and Matt left to go to secure 8th. I caught him in the finish chute and sprinted past for 8th. I never want to sprint at the end of an Ironman again. I finished with a slow run of 3:03 and overall time of 8:56. It was 25 minutes slower than I had hoped but satisfying knowing I raced the whole day on my own and achieved my goal of finishing top 10.
A big thank you to the following people.
My wife Tarryn who consistently supports me in everything I do. (We look forward to our first child being born in March)
My coach Eric Hansen, without him I would not continue to improve at the rate I have.
Dan Roberts from DTR sports management.
Sponsors:
Team Degani (George is now an Ironman)
Saucony Runners
Winners Sports Nutrition
Consultive Recruitment
Ryders Eyewear
Masseur Cole
PhysioLiz Molloy from the Alphington Sports Clinic
See you on the track!
DTR Sports Management’s Matty White finishes top five at Ironman Western Australia, only two weeks after Shepparton Half Ironman.
Please find Matty’s personal race report below,
One word pretty much describes the day out there, not only for the pros but for a lot of the age groupers who really suffered in the sweltering conditions on possibly one of the fastest courses in Australia.
On a more personal note I didn’t know what to expect out there and what the day would hold as I really had not done a lot since coming back from Kona and I was banking on the fact that all my Kona prep would give me enough legs to get me across the line in a respectable time and position, so walking toward the swim start I was unusually relaxed and had a “go with the flow” attitude as opposed to the raw nerves which usually accompany a pro ironman start!
The field at Busso was really wide open in terms of stand out quality, my biggest concerns at the front of the field were Vernay and defending champion Tim Berkel, then came a whole list of athletes such as Nyedi, Ogden, Shortis, Rix, Johnson, Marr etc, I knew the race would come together at the front of the field and then come down to whoever could run a fast marathon so it was just a matter of staying in contact through out the race and go, go, go.
My day started at 6am when the gun sounded and almost immediately my heart rate went through the roof and stayed like that for the first 2km, I had an unusually bad swim and came out about 1min30 behind the hitters such as Vernay, Berkel etc. Luckily for me I found my rhythm on the bike and managed to ride up to the main bunch and catch them at 30km in to the ride. The bike course is lightening fast in Busso with great road surfaces and no hills at all so I wound up the lightweight disc and Merida Time Warp and it just soaked up the road. Jimmy Johnson was about 2-3min ahead of the main group which contained all the good runners and it seemed everyone was content to leave him hanging out there.
During the ride I had a few hard digs trying to get away and break up the group but it was too difficult with everyone watching each other. We hit transition all together and I managed to get a clean run out the tent with Berkel and Vernay, which was great as I was around the mark and feeling good at this point. I knew that my legs would not hold out on the run as my preparation has been limited so I decided to have a crack and go as hard as I can before the wheels fall off and hopefully get enough of a gap to hold on. I certainly managed to do that as I checked my watch at the 10km and it said 38min! at this point I was within a minute of the lead and running with Vernay which in itself is a daunting prospect so I decided to back off the pace a bit as Patrick was throwing in a few surges ripping my legs apart. At about the 25km point things went backwards in a big way and I had to ask my self some pretty deep questions to keep going, but I had a good hold on 5th and I was looking at a PB time so I kept plugging away as I really wanted to finish the year on a good note.
Overall I managed to sneak in to 5th place in 8hrs 35min behind, Vernay, Nyedi, Johnson and Ogden which also gave me 2nd Australian which I am pretty happy about as a lot of pros found the going tough and called it a day on the run, so to be able to stick it out after backing up from Kona and Shepparton in tough conditions was extremely satisfying. I have had great support this year from all my sponsors and it was good to repay them with my best year yet in the sport. I am now going to have a break until the new year where I will build up for Geelong 70.3 and possibly another Ironman in February or March! So stay tuned.
Also well done to the SA athletes who toughed it out, I managed to speak to a few of you who said how tough it was. Also a big shout out to Ryan Harris who is a fellow fire fighter in Adelaide who completed his first Ironman in 12hrs and quite possibly the best finish I have ever seen. He was so pumped to finish he gave himself cramps on the finish line! It was so great to see the level of accomplishment on the faces as they crossed the line and I consider myself privileged to be part of this wonderful yet gruelling sport!
Matt
DTR Sports Management’s Paul Attard, Matty White and Charlotte McShane feature throughout the race.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUPqW9edEn8
Enjoy,
